The American Family Keepsake

Or, People's Practical Cyclopedia

Published in Boston in 1848, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection by an unnamed “Good Samaritan” imparts an enormous variety of information from medicinal cures to common childhood illnesses to recipes, farming, “Indian Recipes,” sewing, dressing, and more. A lifestyle encyclopedia for the mid-19th century. Published in 1848 in Boston, The American Family…